Dhaka, July 20 -- Reform in Bangladesh is a hard task to do but an indispensable must-do to unblock economic advances from scams and coalitions of vested interests.

Economists and academics came up with such views Saturday while reviewing a book that highlights scandalous acts that had stymied potential economic progress of the country over the years.

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), stressed the urgency of reform to stem a repeat of the perennial crises, saying that reform in Bangladesh is a complex, and often uneven journey, but it remains indispensable.

"Policy improvement is rarely straightforward. It tends to be slow, fraught with obstacles, and often yields mixed results. So...